Prix D’Excellence en Journalisme Économique et Financier de L’AGPC

2024 APPLICATION
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The winners of the 2023 Awards have been announced. Congratulations to all!

About the Awards

The purpose of the awards is to promote and reward excellence in Canadian newspaper, magazine and online journalism that fosters a better understanding of the investment industry, its products and services and, ultimately, helps to improve Canadian financial literacy. The secondary purpose is to meet the needs of Canadian investors and the public at large in their search for up-to date information on the economy, and domestic and international financial markets.

A submission may be made in either the long OR short-form category OR in the Audio-Visual category detailed below:

Short Entry Awards: One (1) submission of up to three (3) different/unrelated entries that are less than 1,000 words
- First prize: $4,000
- Second prize: $2,000
Long Entry Awards: One (1) submission 1,000 words or more
- First prize: $4,000
- Second prize: $2,000
Audio-Visual Entry: One (1) entry that must be no longer than 60 minutes
- First prize: $4,000
Top Award: First Prize Overall – $1,000 bonus

Eligibility

Submissions must have appeared in print, online (text content), or audio-visual (podcasts, radio and TV broadcasts on investment topics that educate and inform investing public) format between March 1, 2023 and February 28, 2024
Submissions are only eligible to those in Canadian media
Submissions must have been made available to the Canadian public in English or French
Individual journalists are eligible for one (1) submission, in either the Short Entry category OR the Long Entry category OR the Audio-Visual Entry category
Short Entry: One (1) submission of up to three (3) different/unrelated entries
- Print/Online Article: Each entry must be less than 1,000 words
Long entry: One (1) submission
- Print/Online Article: Entry must be 1,000 words or more; OR one (1) submission of a series of related articles totaling 1,000 words or more
Audio-Visual Entry: One (1) entry
- The entry must be no longer than 60 minutes
- Single episodes from a series are permitted
Employees, directors, or officers of a financial services or investment firm are ineligible.

For purpose of eligibility, a submission refers to the collection of entries; an entry refers to an individual story.

Nominations

Nominations can be made by the author(s) of the submitted article(s), editor or other employee of the publication or by the general public at large.
Nominations must be received by April 15, 2024
The awards will be presented at an event held within three months of the application closing date.

Selection Process

Each qualifying entry will be considered in competition with all others by an independent panel of judges that will be appointed annually.

The panel will comprise of an appropriate balance of experienced and knowledgeable professionals with expertise in either the field of journalism or investment/financial services:

At least one judge will be fluent in French and English.
All potential judges will be screened for any actual or perceived conflict of interest.

In evaluating the merit of an entry, judges shall consider:

The article’s content meeting the stated purposes of the Award;
Professional journalistic ethics and commonly accepted standards;
The constraint of the article length given the complexity of the topic covered; and
Journalists that go “above and beyond” to write thoughtful and substantive articles that provide a perspective on topical issues pertinent to the Canadian investing public.

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